Voldemort: Between Life and Death?

[inkling108]

No: HPFGUIDX 110231

> Alshain wrote:
\My thoughts went in the direction of the folklore, when I read your 
> pot about mirrors. Don't people say that there are nasty 
consequences 
> of the soul-losing variety if you get between two mirrors -- for 
> example, the pair of mirrors Sirius and James used, or one of them 
> plus the Mirror of Erised? Is that what is going to make Harry 
> Voldemort's equal or is there some other way he can do it while 
> preserving his humanity? 

Inkling now:

I was thinking more along the lines of a mirror as a doorway, for 
example, Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.  A mirror that 
is magically linked to someone on the other side, like Sirius' 
mirror, might provide such a doorway.  Also, remember the scene in 
POA in which Sirius' face appears in the crystal -- this may have 
been one of the foreshadowings JKR mentioned.

I think Harry is already Voldy's equal -- and is his only equal in 
the WW.  But he must find a way to use this equality to bring about 
Voldy's final defeat. This will involve entering deeply into the 
mystery of life and death, because Voldy is caught between the two.

Alshain again:
I started musing about the unicorn blood from PS, 
> and I wouldn't be surprised if Voldemort has taken it before.>

It gives the drinker a cursed life, a half life -- more indication 
that Voldy is not truly alive!

 
> Whatever Ancient Magic that Voldemort used to 
> become what he became, I fervently hope it's different in kind 
from 
> the life debts and Dumbledore's and Lily's Ancient Magic that was 
> used for Harry's protection -- I've always found it irritating to 
see 
> all of those things lumped together. The former is about using 
magic 
> for selfish purposes to enhance yourself with extra powers -- 
trying 
> to set yourself apart from the rest of humanity. The latter is 
about 
> the things that instead make you *more* human (and which Voldemort 
> would detest because he sees humanity as weakness)

Yes, and I fully expect that the magic of being deeply human will 
trump the so-called superhuman magic in the end. (Or I'll be really 
mad at JKR!)  One (hopefully) prophetic event: Harry was able to 
throw off Voldy's possesion by recalling his love for Sirius.

Inkling